Bills flagged as anti-business on the rise.REFLECTING a more assertive as·ser·tive adj. Inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively self-assured. as·ser  tive·ly adv. attitude among legislative Democrats and their allies, this year's list of job killer" bills released by the California Chamber of Commerce contains nearly twice as many entries as last year. In all, 41 bills made the list of legislation deemed harmful to California's business climate, up from 23 last year. Many are revivals of bills that failed last year, such as increases in upper-income bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. tax rates and the minimum wage and establishment of a single-payer health care Single-payer health care is an American term describing the payment for doctors, hospitals and other providers for health care from a single fund. The Canadian health care system and Medicare in the U.S. for the elderly are single-payer systems. system. But others are new, such as extending the state sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. to currently-exempted services, raising commercial property tax rates, closing a subchapter "S" corporation tax loophole An omission or Ambiguity in a legal document that allows the intent of the document to be evaded. Loopholes come into being through the passage of statutes, the enactment of regulations, the drafting of contracts or the decisions of courts. and increasing penalties for certain air pollution violations. California's goods movement industry comes in for particularly rough treatment, with eight bills that would raise fees or taxes on fuel or impose stricter regulations on ports. "If these bills were enacted, we would be putting a chokehold on California's major ports," said Allan Zaremberg, president of the chamber. Last year, 10 of the 23 bills identified as job killers made it to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk; Schwarzenegger vetoed them all. In a press conference, Zaremberg and other business leaders dodged a question about whether Schwarzenegger would veto veto [Lat.,=I forbid], power of one functionary (e.g., the president) of a government, or of one member of a group or coalition, to block the operation of laws or agreements passed or entered into by the other functionaries or members. In the U.S. all of the job-killer bills reaching his desk again this year, especially with more job-killer bills expected to pass the Legislature. |
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